Another cliche sunrise

[tbob]

No redeeming aspects beyond the cheap, cheerful and probably shallow appeal of a sunrise. I read a blog recently, the authors name escapes me, that sunrises are the mark of an amateur. Consider me well and truly glad to be so designated.

[Manfred M]

Nice sunrise, for an "amateur".

[tbob]

Nice sunrise, for an "amateur".

I read an account of life of a "professional" photographer. 95% was the typical drudgery of running a business. Phone calls, paper work, client relations et al. I think I will stay a happy amateur. The only client I have to please is myself (although the boss can be a miserable blighter, making me get up at unreasonable hours and driving in snow to get sort this of thing)

[Manfred M]

Trevor - I know a number of commercial photographers and the one common thing I have learned from all of them is that the photographic aspect of their work is a maximum of 20% of their actual work. If one looks at the shooting part, that comes down to the 5% - 10% part with culling, editing and PP work ending up taking 10% - 15% of their time.

One of them, a couple who were international award winning photographers told me that after the shoot, they would spend in the order of 20 - 30 seconds on an image.

[rpcrowe]

I thought that sunrises are a mark of someone who gets up early The snowy road makes this one interesting...

[pnodrog]

I thought that sunrises are a mark of someone who gets up early The snowy road makes this one interesting...

It's known as insomnia and in my part of the world, there are pills that can help you sleep until it's time for a late breakfast. Unfortunately, if you live near the polar extremes the best cure is total hibernation.

Still a nice shot from an amateur insomniac photographer.

[Shadowman]

The author probably specializes in sunrises and just wants to control the market. Nicely captured, I would consider cropping out the stray tree limbs at right, the shrubs work as shown.

[Wavelength]

"A snowy road" as caption takes away all the 'cliche' of the image; it is very nice

[lunarbo]

When you blow it up on screen the colours really sing and the image goes on forever - good work.

I would agree with Shadowman's suggestion to lose the tree branches from the sky on the right hand side.

[Donald]

A cliché is a cliché because is started out as something amazingly popular and remains so today. The person who derides it an uses cliché as negative is probably desperate for a good sunrise/sunset. In the absence of such, he/she will therefore say they didn't want one themselves, because it is a cliché.

ps - It's a cracker.

[tbob]

Thanks all. By rigid statistical analysis (I guessed) of the average incidence of exemplary sunrises and sunsets and my life span I will see 4000 excellent sunsets/sunrises in my life. I plan to appreciate the last 1000 anyway I see fit.